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What is a symbol?
An object, person, image, situation, or action that represents a more abstract idea
What is setting?
The time and place in which a story takes place
Ms. Budnik is as busy as a bee grading all these literary analysis essays!
Simile: comparison using "like" or "as"
A sentence with a metaphor.
Comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"
A Foil
Type of character that is set in contrast of another
What is diction?
A writer's word choice
What is foreshadowing?
Hints and details within a narrative to help predict something that will occur later in the text
The students were dying when Ms. Budnik wouldn't plus add them to resource.
Hyperbole: an overstatement or exaggeration
A sentence with an allusion.
A reference to an outside source.
Hubris
An extreme amount of pride, arrogance, or overconfidence leading to a character's downfall
What is mood/atmosphere?
The feeling or emotional reaction of the READER when reading a text
What is tone?
The AUTHOR'S attitude towards their subject, character, or work as a whole
The story jumped off the pages and caught my attention just by the first sentence.
Personification: attributing human qualities to non-human entities
A sentence or two containing detailed imagery.
The use of descriptive language to create mental pictures in the reader's mind.
Intertextuality
the relationship and commonalities between texts
What is a motif?
A reoccurring image, symbol, or idea that appears throughout a story
What is an epigraph?
A brief passage at the beginning of a text that sets the tone or theme of what comes after
Someone who loves the hot, sunny weather but gets sunburnt.
Irony: contrast between reality and expectations; incongruity between what is expected vs. what actually happens
A sentence or two containing a juxtaposition.
Contrasting two things that are placed side-by-side.
Dues Ex Machina
plot device where an external force resolves a seemingly insolvable conflict or problem
What is an allegory?
The abstract or symbolic representation a narrative has
What is interior monologue?
A writing technique that exhibits a character's thoughts, feelings, and associations occurring within their mind
If you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
Paradox: a statement that contradicts itself, but reveals a deeper truth or hidden meaning
A few sentences or a passage using anaphora.
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences.
Analepsis
plot device that interrupts the chronological sequence of a narrative with a scene from the past